فعالیت اجتماعی

دو راه در جنگل از هم جدا می‌شدند، و عبور از هر دو مقدور نبود

ایستادم و به عمق یکی‌ نگریستم

تا آنجا که پیچ خورد و به پشت درختان سُرید

پا در راه دوم گذاشتم
که شاید مثل اولی‌ بود

با چمن‌های پا نخورده که حضور پای مرا دعوت میکرد

هر دو راه در مقابلم بودند فرش شده از برگهای سیاه

و پنداشتم که راه اول را برای سفر دیگری رها کنم

آگاه که ممکن است هیچگاه از این مسیر بر نگردم

آه، که بعد از سالیان سال خواهم گفت که: دو راه

در جنگل از هم جدا شدند

و من آن راهی‌ را انتخاب کردم

که کمتر از آن عبور شده بود

و همین و فقط همین مهم بود
راهِ انتخاب نشده از رابرت فراست

Activism

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

What threat? The Iranian Threat (By: Noam Chomsky)

The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that "the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability" in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term "stability" here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congress strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding US offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacks in the Central Command area. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by the Sunday Herald (Glasgow), the substantial military equipment Obama has dispatched includes 387 "bunker busters" used for blasting hardened underground structures. Planning for these "massive ordnance penetrators," the most powerful bombs in the arsenal short of nuclear weapons, was initiated in the Bush administration, but languished. On taking office, Obama immediately accelerated the plans, and they are to be deployed several years ahead of schedule, aiming specifically at Iran.